RollOn Travel
Accessible tours for disabled travelers
About You
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First name
Volker
Last name
Posselt
Your job title
Mangaing Director
Name of your organization
RollOn Travel
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Organization Type
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Annual Budget/Currency
Mailing address
Mailing Address
Telephone number
+49 6221 329544
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Country
Germany
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Your idea
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Germany
Geotourism Challenge Addressed by Entrant
Organization size
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Indicate sector in which you principally work
Tourism-related business
Year innovation began
1999
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Name Your Project
RollOn Travel
Describe Your Idea
Accessible tours for disabled travelers
Innovation
What is the goal of your innovation? Please describe in one sentence the kind of impact, change, or reform your approach is intended to achieve.
We provide accessible tours open to people with disability's. Our tours are wheelchair accessible, we provide nursing, we care qualified for people with mental disability.
Please write an overview of your project. Include how your approach supports or embodies geotourism or destination stewardship. This text will appear when people scroll over the icon for your entry on the map located on the competition homepage.
Accessible tours for disabled travelers
Explain in detail why your approach is innovative
It is not jet cost efficient to do all this research work. But well it is a service that is needed.
Webpages:
www.RollOnTravel.de
www.RollOnTravel.com
www.Thailand-Fieber.de
www.A1-Thailand.com
www.Love-Thai.info
www.Accessible-Asia.com
www.Rolli.info
Impact
Describe the degree of success you have had to date. How do you measure, both quantitatively and qualitatively, the impact on sustainability or enhancement of local culture, environment, heritage, or aesthetics? How has it transformed or contributed to the power of place or demonstrated the sustainability of tourism? How does your approach minimize negative impacts?
I am able to make a living from my business for 6 months a year. I have brought many disabled travelers to places where they would never have got without my assistance.
In what ways are local residents actively involved in your work, including participation and community input? How has the community responded to or benefited from your approach?
We work closely together with many disabled organizations
How does your program promote traveler enthusiasm, satisfaction, and engagement with the locale?
Traveling should be a basic right for everybody we do the basic work.
Describe how your work helps travelers and local residents better understand the value of the area's cultural and natural heritage, and educates them on local environmental issues.
By bringing disabled travelers from Europe and the US to Asia we empower the local disabled community's self confidence.
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Sustainability
How is your initiative currently financed? If available, provide information on your finances and organization that could help others. Please list: Annual budget, annual revenue generated, size of part-time, full-time and volunteer staff.
All profits go back to the project. Potential losses are compensated by unpayed labor of myself and supporters.
Is your initiative financially and organizationally sustainable? If not, what is required to make it so? Is there a potential demand for your innovation?
Funds are needed to set up company structures in Asia and secure the salary of 3 stuff for 2 Years.
What are the main barriers you encounter in managing, implementing, or replicating your innovation? What barriers keep your program from having greater impact?
Lak of funding
What is your plan to expand or further develop your approach? Please indicate where/how you would like to grow or enhance your innovation, or have others do so.
Accessible Asia
The Story
Please provide a personal bio. Note this may be used in Changemakers' marketing material.
I am 36 years old and live half in Heidelberg Germany and half in Thailand. 1999 I founded RollOn Travel to provide accessible tours for disabled travelers.
What is the origin of your innovation? Tell the Changemakers and media communities what prompted you to start this initiative.
I am educated in Germany as social worker, I hold a German business degree and I am a passionate traveler. Mix all that and out comes what I am a specialized tour operator for disabled travelers.
Describe some unique tourist experiences that your approach provides. Be specific; give illustrative examples.
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What types of partnerships or professional development would be most beneficial in spreading your innovation?
We provide consulting for tour operators and Hotels who are interested to open up their services to disabled travelers.
 | 158 weeks agoVolker Posselt submitted this idea. |
